Energy Efficiency Engineer, Buildings & Decarbonization

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 69,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

CIMA+ is seeking an Intermediate Energy Efficiency Engineer to join our Ottawa Buildings team. You will lead energy audits, performance assessments, and ECM development for institutional, commercial, municipal, and federal clients, delivering practical energy savings.

You will collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and sustainability specialists to optimize building systems, support commissioning and decarbonization initiatives, and help clients meet ESG targets across Canada.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform energy audits and building performance assessments, including ASHRAE Level 1 and Level 2 energy audits and detailed investigations of building systems.
• Conduct site investigations and assess existing HVAC, hydronic, plumbing, electrical, lighting, controls/BAS, and other energy-consuming systems.
• Analyze utility bills, interval data, submetering data, BAS trends, equipment operating data, and building operating schedules to identify energy-saving and operational improvement opportunities.
• Identify, develop, and evaluate energy conservation measures (ECMs) related to HVAC optimization, controls, heat recovery, electrification, heat pumps, lighting, envelope improvements, equipment replacement, and operational improvements.
• Perform engineering calculations to quantify energy, demand, operating cost, and greenhouse gas savings associated with proposed measures.
• Support energy management programs, including energy performance tracking, benchmarking, energy action plans, ongoing monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and support commissioning, recommissioning, and retro-commissioning activities, including functional performance testing, BAS and control sequence reviews, trend analysis, deficiency identification, and verification of corrective actions.
• Review building automation system sequences and operating strategies and develop recommendations to improve equipment scheduling, setpoints, reset strategies, ventilation, temperature control, and overall system performance.
• Support measurement and verification (M&V) activities to confirm the performance and savings of implemented energy efficiency measures.
• Develop building dec

Job description

CIMA+ is seeking an Intermediate Energy Efficiency Engineer to join our Ottawa Buildings team. You will lead energy audits, performance assessments, and ECM development for institutional, commercial, municipal, and federal clients, delivering practical energy savings.

You will collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and sustainability specialists to optimize building systems, support commissioning and decarbonization initiatives, and help clients meet ESG targets across Canada.